WRITER

EDITOR

LOVER OF PALM TREES

Liz Prato's short story collection, Baby's on Fire, was published by Press 53 in 2015. Her stories and essays have appeared in dozens of literary journals and magazines, including Hayden's Ferry Review, Carolina Quarterly, Baltimore Review, The Rumpus, Salon, Hunger Mountain, and ZYZZYVA. She is the Editor at Large for Forest Avenue Press, where she edited the anthology, The Night, and the Rain, and the River(2014).

Liz's newest book Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i will be released by Overcup Press in April 2019.

A Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2012 Sewanee Writers Conference and a frequent attendee of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Liz has been privileged to study with Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Charles D'Ambrosio, Anthony Doerr, Jim Shepard, and many other talented authors.

Liz lives with her furry feline friends and her best friend/husband, who is a bookseller, musician, and writer in Portland, Oregon.